ECE 1040 - Safe Healthy Learning Environment

Clock Hours: 52

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
Components of safe, healthy learning and play environments - Topics include: Arrangement of classroom and playground, supervision, principles of health practices such as toileting, handwashing, toy sanitation, food preparation, & immunizations. Toy selection, fire safety, CPR & First Aid. Injury reports. Detection of suspected child abuse. Current state/ federal reporting requirements and procedures.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Promoting Children’s Safety
1. List objectives for maintaining a safe environment for children.
2. Describe guidelines for promoting children’s safety.
3. Name ways to promote and practice fire safety in an early childhood program.
4. Outline the procedures for treating poisonings.
5. Recognize the signs of child abuse.
6. Teach children how to resist child abuse.
Guiding Children’s Health
1. Develop a workable health policy for a child care center.
2. List steps for controlling the spread of foodborne illnesses.
3. Explain the importance of first aid training.
4. Identify various injuries and outline procedures for treating them.
5. Explain how to care for children who become ill while in your care
6. Describe your responsibility when caring for children with special illnesses.
7. Demonstrate adult and pediatric CPR procedures.
8. Demonstrate basic first aid procedures.
9. Explain the importance of sanitary control.
10. Describe the positive environmental factors that influence good health in children.